A bloody clash took place at the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP office in Kano among political thugs and party supporters who were at the office yesterday to witness the inauguration of the state committee members at the new office at Court Road, Kano. Aminu Balami, who was a PDP supporter, witnessed the happenings. “As the event was about to end with closing prayers, we just saw about seven young men coming in from nowhere. Before the twinkling of an eye they just brought out machetes and began attacking everyone at the office”, he said. Balami confirmed that together they retaliated and wounded all the attackers. “All of them sustained injuries; they were not successful,” he maintained. A number of young men were seen fleeing the area with various degrees of injuries, while others were seen in police vehicles with blood all over their bodies and were taken away. Mailafiya, a policeman, said that he captured one of the attackers and successfully confiscated his machete after he had already wounded some persons. The policeman said that the assailant tried to escape on their way to police headquarters in Bompai-Kano but was recaptured. There have been public announcements on the local radio stations that there will be an inauguration ceremony of state excos to be presided over by the caretaker chairman of the PDP, Hassan Kaffayus. Many police patrol vehicles and anti-bomb cars were seen around the secretariat and officers were seen asking the people around how the incident occurred and whose faction of the PDP was at fault. A police officer was overheard saying that they must work according to the instructions of the Police AIG, Zone 1, which is on the side of the Tukur-led PDP IN Kano. He categorically said that those arrested, if they are supporters of the G7 governors, must have been taken to Abuja to avoid state government intervention in the investigation process. Area residents were seen fleeing the area with their children for the fear of what might come after the police left the area.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:01:51 +0000